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Trying a switch to tal@lemmy.today, at least for a while, due to recent kbin.social stability problems and to help spread load.

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Just a thought for a possible additional mod -- there are various devices that can generate electrical power via movement.

https://www.instructables.com/Piezoelectric-Shoes-Charge-Your-Mobile-Device-by-W/

Piezoelectric Shoes: Charge Your Mobile Device by Walking!

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Even the mightiest of rivers begins with but a trickle.

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https://www.marineband.marines.mil/Portals/175/Docs/Audio/Taps/Taps_Matt_Harding.mp3

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There was a certain sense of community when everyone knew who you referred to when you just said "tom" or "smeg".

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I assume that he's talking about Steam content, given that one normally directly runs games from Steam on a Steam Deck.

Steam doesn't let not-logged-in users see their adult content -- one has to create an account and enable it -- but SteamDB does.

Steam content on SteamDB tagged with:

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Honestly, though, if you're putting a mouse, keyboard, dock, monitor, and hard drive on it, you're kind of building yourself a laptop at that point...

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Obviously it has questionable content which is not great to have stored on big servers for legal reasons.

It's less a function of size and more of location. Burggit serves lolicon, which isn't legal in a number of places like Canada, but is protected by the First Amendment in the US.

It looks like lemmy.world is in Germany or thereabouts, or at least that that's where the netblock of the last-hop router between it and me are located.

It sounds like Germany uses a roughly-similar rationale to the US, that the only content that is illegal involves actual abuse of minors or -- because it creates problems for enforcement against those -- content that looks realistic and is indistinguishable. Hence, lolicon sounds like it's okay in Germany.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_pornography_depicting_minors

In principle, the regulations in Chapter 13 of the German Criminal Law for offenses against sexual self-determination also prevent the public advocation and the degradation of minors as sexual objects.[73] The distribution of child pornography, defined as pornography relating to "sexual acts performed by, on or in the presence of a person under 14 years of age (child), the reproduction of a child in a state of full or partial undress in an unnaturally sexual pose, or the sexually provocative reproduction of a child's bare genitalia or bare buttocks," is criminalized with a penalty of imprisonment.[74] However, with regards to possession, only material depicting actual or realistic acts is criminalized.[74] For reproductions of persons over 14 but under 18 years (youth pornography), the penalty for distribution is imprisonment or a fine.[75]

Nevertheless, due to the guaranteed freedom of art,[76] fictional works were officially deemed legal or can be checked by a legal opinion.[77] According to German legal information websites, acquisition and possession of fictional pornography depicting minors where it is immediately apparent that the content is purely of fictional nature, such as cartoons and comics or anime and manga, are not prosecuted against unless it is not readily distinguishable whether the depiction is computer generated or real.[78][79][80] The Federal Government also made it clear that the criminal offense "should remain limited" to cases "in which an actual event is reproduced through video film, film or photo". On the other hand, it did not regard the sanction of the regulation as fulfilled in the case of "child pornographic novels, drawings and cartoons", because their possession did not contribute to children being abused as "actors" in pornographic recordings. [81]

That being said, given that lemmy.world is the largest lemmy instance and is a common choice for newcomers and presently often the first of what newcomers see of lemmy, setting aside legal concerns for the instance operators, I think that it might be a good idea to not have the default content have lolicon sprinkled through it. Obviously, that's up to the instance admins, but if that's not what they want to do, I'd suggest that it might be a good idea to have some instance that acts as a "front door" to recommend people to that does do some level of censorship.

OC /r/NonCredibleDefense recieves automated notice from the admins to remove its NSFW designation, or else. Mods respond by messaging the admins a bunch of death and porn.

Link to the NCD mod's post about the matter via teddit (aka, reddit doesn't get any value from your visit): https://teddit.adminforge.de/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/14s8l4g/re_the_nastygram_that_umodcodeofconduct_just_sent/...

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If they're going somewhere else like the Fediverse, I wish that they'd at least sticky a link or something so that people can find it.

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Are you looking at your subs page? That'll just have your subscribed magazines/communities.

https://kbin.social/sub

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I haven't used either, but a quick search recommends two that, used in combination, can handle some of what GIMP can do.

https://www.teddit.net/r/GIMP/comments/r4ld07/is_there_a_gimp_for_android/

There's nothing that is exactly like GIMP. I had an app called XGIMP, but it is practically useless IMO. If you want something similar to GIMP on mobile, ibisPaint X is free and has similar layer capabilities (Layers, Layer Groups, and Layer Modes); it also allows you to import multiple images into separate layers and modify them. I use this if I want to sketch on my phone. If you want capabilities like the Colors/Tools/Filters dropdown menus, Fantasia Painter is also free and would probably be what you want, though keep in mind everything is done on a single layer. I use that if I want to do mobile photo manipulation.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.ne.ibis.ibispaintx.app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.datcompany.fantasiapainter

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Also, I don't think that the way to deal with "there is content on a platform that I don't like" is to run from it. It's to make better filtering systems to choose what I want. Two reasons:

  • First, some people like different things. They shouldn't have to use different platforms just for that.

  • Second, stuff like spam will show up anywhere that has decent size anyway eventually, once there are enough eyeballs for it.

I think that the goal should be to have plenty of content of all sorts on the Threadiverse, and then just have good filtering tools that are hard to subvert.

Reddit didn't let people build the filtering tools they wanted in and in some cases -- like when it came to their own ads -- were actively opposed to that. The Threadiverse solves that problem for me.

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https://www.amazon.com/s?k=denatured+alcohol

https://www.walmart.com/search?q=denatured+alcohol

Could order it online.

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over 10 million Brits cannot get dental healthcare they need.

I'm an American, but I am confident that in the UK, you can get cosmetic dental work done. You may have to pay for it -- like, it may not be an NHS thing -- but there is a private healthcare industry that exists alongside the state-run one in the UK.

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I assume that he's comparing the migration of Digg users to Reddit when Digg rolled out its very unpopular v4 interface to Reddit making the current changes to their policies today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_revolt#Digg_v4_revolt_and_migration_to_Reddit

In the past, Reddit has cited not wanting to be in Digg's shoes as a reason for keeping around the old.reddit.com interface for users who did not like the new one, so not wanting to do a Digg v4 is a consideration that I believe has been on the minds of the company in past years.

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either shut off your phone or leave it with your wallet

I think that the issue here is that it only takes one person carrying a vulnerable phone with a microphone to allow monitoring a given group. Your phone may be off, but...

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This is the Fediverse alternative.

I think that it's going to be the hardest service to run on the Fediverse, as the bandwidth costs from streaming videos are the highest. I'd think that stuff like lemmy/kbin being an alternative to Reddit, or Mastodon to Twitter is going to be easier to do.

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I would imagine that there's plenty of land for someone to build mom and pop food shops as well if the demand exists for that too.

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Lemmy tries to present content in the same format as Reddit does.

On kbin, you have functionality that roughly mirrors Reddit as well as functionality that roughly mirrors Twitter.

On Reddit, you upvote or downvote a given comment or post.

On Twitter, you "retweet" it -- basically, re-send a link to the tweet to the people who follow the microblog that you write.

kbin can present content in both ways.

The way I use them:

  • Upvote: "This is a good comment in the context of this discussion."

  • Boost: "Oh, man, this is important. More people should know about this."

If you regularly boost content of a given sort, then people who want to follow your microblog will see related content that they may be interested in.

Here's a list of things that I have boosted:

https://kbin.social/u/tal/boosts

If you decide that that's especially in-line with things that you're interested in, you could follow that.

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Also, for completeness, some discussion on the lemmy side on the issues there:

https://aussie.zone/post/299298

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I mean, it's not removing organs maybe, but I'm not sure that it's legal for random unlicensed people to draw blood. I mean, there have been cases in the past where people improperly reusing needles to cut costs when doing legitimate medical work have caused serious problems via spreading disease.

https://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1477-7517-6-24

The reuse of injecting equipment in clinical settings is well documented in Africa and appears to play a substantial role in generalized HIV epidemics.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20471316/

Reuse of single-use devices is common in most countries worldwide. We provide an overview of the issue from an international perspective. In many developing and transitional countries reuse of cheap single-use devices (needles, syringes, surgical gloves) is common leading to large numbers of unsafe interventions, specifically injections and, as a consequence, infection with hepatitis B, C or HIV. There are various reasons for reuse: limited resources, insufficient knowledge of healthcare workers and the belief of patients that injection is more beneficial than oral medication. Reuse of cheap single-use devices should cease and both medical staff and the public should be informed about potential safety risks associated with injection. In developed countries, reuse of single-use items is less common but may include expensive technical products. Reuse is regulated in many countries (e.g. US, Canada, some European countries) demanding ethical and legal considerations, high standards of reprocessing and training of staff, risk assessment, management and validation of reprocessing.

And IIRC, if you screw up and put air into the vein, you can cause a stroke, really mess someone up.

https://www.healthline.com/health/air-embolism#causes

An air embolism, also called a gas embolism­, occurs when one or more air bubbles enter a vein or artery and block it. This is a potentially serious condition.

When an air bubble enters a vein, it’s called a venous air embolism. When an air bubble enters an artery, it’s called an arterial air embolism.

These air bubbles can travel to your brain, heart, or lungs and cause a heart attack, stroke, or respiratory failure.

A syringe or IV can accidentally inject air into your veins. Air can also enter your veins or arteries through a catheter that’s inserted into them.

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Mastodon and pleroma do microblogging (default message length is 500 char, can be modified on each server though).

IIRC, Pleroma defaults to something significantly-longer.

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Toimari spawn Kranuhiisi.

One or more Kranuhiisi will also spawn whenever a Toimari is damaged.

I know that if there isn't space to spawn at least gold, the way the game engine handles it to spawn it at the first available spot moving vertically upwards.

Assuming that the monster spawn functions the same way -- which seems like a reasonable assumption -- maybe something like a Toimari stained with Ambrosia and also somewhere they can be damaged in a tight area below the area in question would do it?

Is there any one else who feels like their life has been disrupted by this whole debacle with Reddit.

I really do like KBin and Lemmy and the fediverse on the whole, but development is still young and the userbase still growing. KBin is still basically early access, and Lemmy is buggy. I spent alot of time in reddit and I'm feeling the pain of trying to ween myself from it. Just wanted to here community perspectives and see how...

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Followup, 48 hours later:

Saw this, remembered your comment, thought I'd point you to this:

https://kbin.social/m/retrogaming/t/141059/Immortal-joystick-Kickstarter

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You can also mod down the difficulty. I tend to play with a mod that provides a slow health regen.

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